What’s the guideline on alcohol intake while breastfeeding?

An interesting point for you to note is that breastmilk contains the same alcohol content as your bloodstream. As Anne Enright writes in her book Making Babies, ‘[Alcohol] is reabsorbed into your bloodstream as you sober up. Two hours after a glass of wine, you might as well have been drinking water . . . If your baby sleeps for twelve hours, then you can drink your head off for the first three of them and, when morning comes, you might feel poisoned, but you will not be poisonous.’ However, Anne also reminds us that ‘the children of women who drink daily show no difference in cognitive development at one year, but they do show a small but significant delay in motor development’.